July 19, 2017 Albuquerque, New Mexico - In addition to the unfamiliar combination of bismuth and magnesium/zinc, there were questions about the isotope ratios in the magnesium.

Isotope refers to the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of each atom. For example, magnesium on Earth is made up of about 80% 24Magnesium. That means there are twelve protons and twelve neutrons at the center of each 24Mg atom.

The other 20% is equally divided between 25Mg, which has one additional neutron compared to 24Mg. There are two additional neutrons in 26Mg compared to 24Mg. If the layered metal were truly extraterrestrial in origin, some wondered if anomalies might be detected in those ratios, or percentages, of isotopes.

I learned that an ion microprobe which could analyze magnesium isotopes was newly installed at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C. After discussions with Erik Hauri, Ph.D. in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, who agreed to analyze the layered Bi/Mg metal, I drove to Washington, D. C. on July 20, 1996. I gave him a cut and polished slice of the layered material. Erik Hauri, Ph.D., found about 11% more 26Mg in the mysterious sample, but still not outside terrestrial ranges for magnesium metal.

“The Bi-Mg sample gave count rates of positive magnesium ions, which were enhanced sixty times more than in the pure Mg metal standard.” (Howe's emphasis.)

Dr. Hauri suggested three possible reasons for the difference. First, he explained that the zinc might act as a catalyst for Mg ionization. Second, the catalytic process might be enhanced if there were a distinctive arrangement in the Mg crystal structure, which related to how the material was originally constructed. Third, if oxygen were somewhere in the sample, it could enhance Mg ionization. However, Dr. Hauri acknowledged that none of the ion microprobe spectra showed any oxygen.

I kept reporting the research findings on Dreamland and asked if anyone listening had any information
about the construction or function of the layered Bi/Mg-Zn. I also contacted dozens of people in the scientific and industrial community to see if I could find anyone who had worked with bismuth and magnesium/zinc layered together in the alternating and wavy micron thicknesses.

I contacted the Director of Material Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the National Science Foundation; metallurgists at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and aerospace and exotic metals manufacturers. But no one had any knowledge of such a layered material.

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